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• George Keith Hamrick, North Carolina († 2005)
• Dirk Noort, Leiden († 2012)
• Bennie Buschers († 2013)
• Debra Ann Decker, Olivia, MN
• Jan Maarleveld, Kamerik († 1953)
• Carole d'Oultremont, Tirlemont (Tienen), 24107, Belgique († 2006)
• Janneke de Vries, Emmen
• Louise den Hartog, Beesd West Betuwe (GL) († 2013)
• Hieke Wartena, Garijp, Friesland, Nederland († 2015)
• Uberta (Betsie) LANGEMAAT, Coevorden Drenthe Netherlands († 2012)

• Albert Edward Rosser (71), reg'd Bathurst, NSW, AU
• Antonia VAES (63)
• Albertus Drost (68), Rhenen
• Age Kornelisz Zoethout (74), Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adrianus Franciscus Mutsaers (72), Tilburg
• Adrianus Franciscus Mutsaers (72), ,, Tilburg, Nederland
• Age Zoethout (74), Oude Haven 104 Nijmegen
• Adrianus Cornelis Anthonius Boekel (33), Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Harmens HOGENBERG (70)
• Alphonsus van Looveren (75), Brecht (Antwerpen) (België)

• 1951 » Al Greenwood, American keyboard player
• 1951 » Ken Ham, Australian-American evangelist
• 1951 » Patrick Hall, English lawyer and politician
• 1952 » Derek Ridgers, English photographer and art director
• 1952 » Melanie Mayron, American actress and director
• 1952 » Wilma Josefina Salgado, Ecuadorian politician and economist
• 1953 » Bill Nunn, American actor († 2016)
• 1953 » Keith Hernandez, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1953 » Richard McWilliam, American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded the Upper Deck Company († 2013)
• 1954 » Steve Orich, American composer and conductor

• 1936 » Anne Sullivan, American educator (b. 1866)
• 1940 » Gunnar Asplund, Swedish architect and academic, co-designed Skogskyrkogården (b. 1885)
• 1941 » Ken Farnes, English cricketer and soldier (b. 1911)
• 1950 » Henry L. Stimson, American colonel, lawyer, and politician, 46th United States Secretary of State (b. 1867)
• 1953 » Werner Baumbach, German colonel and pilot (b. 1916)
• 1956 » Lawrence Dale Bell, American industrialist and founder of Bell Aircraft Corporation (b. 1894)
• 1957 » Michalis Dorizas, Greek-American javelin thrower and football player (b. 1890)
• 1964 » Herbert Hoover, American engineer and politician, 31st President of the United States (b. 1874)
• 1967 » Shigeru Yoshida, Japanese politician and diplomat, 32nd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1878)
• 1968 » Bud Flanagan, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1896)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Willem
5. Hendrik
6. Gerrit
7. Robert
8. Peter
9. Pieter
10. Petrus
11. Adrianus
12. Jacobus
13. Dirk
14. John
15. Wilhelmus
16. Gerardus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Hendrika
8. Catharina
9. Adriana
10. Yvonne
11. Margaretha
12. Petronella
13. Geertruida
14. Linda
15. Alida
16. Jacoba

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 10.4 million citizens.
• January 5 » The play Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett receives its première in Paris.
• February 11 » Cold War: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower denies all appeals for clemency for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
• May 29 » Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on Tenzing Norgay's (adopted) 39th birthday.
• June 18 » The Egyptian revolution of 1952 ends with the overthrow of the Muhammad Ali dynasty and the declaration of the Republic of Egypt.
• September 7 » Nikita Khrushchev is elected first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
• November 17 » The remaining human inhabitants of the Blasket Islands, Kerry, Ireland, are evacuated to the mainland.

The temperature on October 20, 1953 was between 12.2 °C and 14.3 °C and averaged 13.0 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 2.0 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.